The themes are a bit heavy for the slender plot, but the bleak coastal village is the ideal spot for pondering the spiritual desolation of modern times.

It was a bit of excitement to relieve the monotony of life in a bleak Norwegian village.

Left for dead, Nahapet is able to make his way to a bleak and cold village in Aragats (filmed in Talin), a part of the new state of Soviet Armenia.

More than 50 families in this small, bleak village in central Cambodia depend on the well for their water for drinking and bathing.

An out-of-work youngster from a bleak village, he learned to bowl without an instructor or even a how-to book.

In the 1960s it was a bleak, cold, dirty, industrial village, although not as inhospitable as in the 1800s when the Bronte sisters lived at The Parsonage.

Mother deplored the place, finding it so different from Boston, but Father was deeply moved at seeing the bleak impoverished village from which he had sprung.

It may sound idyllic, but I live in one of the bleakest, highest villages in Gloucestershire.

Set high in the Pennines, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire, the bleak village of Pendle has become synonymous with sorcery.

He was still in the top of a windmill; the barren slope below still led down to the bleak village by the lake.